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Kingston, NY
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Sports And Camp Check-Ups For Kids: Special Considerations For Children With
Covid-
19
A rite of passage in spring is getting kids ready for warm weather activities and sports, day camp and sleepaway camp. As the world is cautiously opening up, the prospect of getting children out of the house and into the fresh air is looking bright, compared to last summer when activities were up-ended by the pandemic. For the majority of kids who have not tested positive for the virus that causes COVID-19, all they need is a routine medical check-up before they participate in sports or attend camp. For the more than 3.34 million children who have tested positive for COVID-19, their situati…
Massapequa, NY
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Covid-
19: 'He's Been Through Hell:' Mom Details 9-Year-Old Son’s Battle With Rare Complication
A mom is speaking out after her 9-year-old son was diagnosed with a rare and potentially fatal COVID-19 complication that landed him in the hospital. Michele Mi says her son, Johnny, a third-grader in Mt. Olive, New Jersey, was diagnosed with COVID-19 on Dec. 23 but showed no symptoms. “I thought we were very lucky,” she writes in a Jan. 20 Facebook post. Two and a half weeks went by before Johnny — who had already been quarantined — woke up vomiting with a spiked temperature, said Mi, who rushed him to a pediatrician. After Johnny’s flu test came back negative, the pediatrician told Mi a…
Parsippany-Troy Hills, NJ
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'He's Been Through Hell:' NJ Mom Details 9-Year-Old Son’s Battle With Rare COVID Complication
A New Jersey mom is speaking out after her 9-year-old son was diagnosed with a rare and potentially fatal COVID-19 complication that landed him in the hospital. Michele Mi says her son, Johnny, a third-grader in Mt. Olive, was diagnosed with COVID-19 on Dec. 23 but showed no symptoms. “I thought we were very lucky,” she writes in a Jan. 20 Facebook post. Two and a half weeks went by before Johnny — who had already been quarantined — woke up vomiting with a spiked temperature, said Mi, who rushed him to a pediatrician. After Johnny’s flu test came back negative, the pediatrician told Mi ab…
Briarcliff, NY
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What Parents Need To Know About
Mis-c
Dear Doctor, As the parent of three young kids, I’m kind of freaked out by the recent news that there’s a new life-threatening complication of COVID-19 in children. What do we know about this problem, and how worried should I be? Sincerely, “Panicked Parent” Dear Panicked: It’s totally understandable that you’re concerned about this new complication called multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C). Since MIS-C is so new (it was first identified in April), there’s still a lot that we don’t know about it. But we are fairly confident that it’s related to the coronavirus as all o…
